Gaelic Football
The club came to prominence in 1960 when Team Captain Joe McAnally was on the Kildare team. In 1961 the club ended a run of defeats to Staffan and then beat Rheban and Carbury reserves to win the junior championship. The following year, Allenwood won the intermediate championship, beating Rathcoffey, Maynooth and devastating Celbridge in the final, with Brian Judge playing at full-forward. Kilcock, Moorefield and Carbury ousted Allenwood from the senior championships of the sixties but Allenwood was showing great consistency in the Leinster Leader Cup. They beat Raheens in the 1964 final, Clane in the 1966 final and Carbury in the 1970 final.
Their 11-4 to 1-1 victory over defending champions Clane was the shock of the 1968 championship. The club then progressed to the county semi-final, losing to Clane in 1969. The club lost to Carbury in 1970, and eventually broke through at the third attempt when they beat Raheens 8-2 to 8-0 in 1971. Despite an eight point victory over Carbury in a Leader Cup final the previous April, Allenwood beaten soundly in the 1971 county final.
As the tower of the peat station which dominated the landscape was destroyed in June 1997, Allenwood re-emerged once more but lost a one-sided county final to Sarsfields in 1999. Ken Doyle and John Doyle inspired Allenwood to their first county title in 2004, defeating St. Laurence's by 11-0 to 7-0 with a strong second half performance. John Doyle was Kildare footballer of the year in 2004 and 2005. They lost by one point to Skryne in the quarter final of the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship.
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